Laura Conrad

News of the week of February 28, 2023

Meeting Report

We played:

Ravenscroft: (Note: all of these are in the booklet for the 2013 Walk for Hunger)
- He that will an Alehouse keep
- Well fare the nightingale
- Oaken leaves
- O my fearful dreams
Morley, It was a lover and his lass
Rhau, Dulces Exuviae

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

Happy 72nd Birthday to me

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, either in person, by phone, email, or post.

Celebration

Someone emailed me that 72 is a perfect square (9) times a perfect cube (8).

We had a small dinner party, with roast beef, a good wine that (serendipitously) went very well with the blackberry appetizer, and a chocolate cake.

A friend who couldn’t come to the dinner party because of having covid called. He’s on the Paxlovid, and his symptoms are pretty much gone except that he gets tired with very little exertion.

Someone posted that he hopes my housing situation is resolved.

HOUSING

Not yet, but there is some hope. We got the electricity connected.

This means that soon we can get gas connected (which we requested last May). They wouldn’t do the gas because the first thing they want to do when the gas is connected is test the furnaces, and that requires electricity.

Once we have both gas and electricity, we will have heat, and the people who are doing the floors will be able to do the urethane.

Once the floors are done, we can start moving things in like appliances and plumbing fixtures, and then it should be a small number of weeks.

I don’t have a schedule for any of this happening, but I believe all the people who are working on it want it to be over.

PETS

For those of you who missed it, Maia died last May. She is missed, especially in the current situation. I’m not doing anything like enough walking, and I don’t think it makes sense to adopt a new dog until I have my house back.

Orion is doing his best to be helpful.

News of the week of February 14, 2023

Meeting Report

We played:

Ravenscroft: (Note: all of these are in the booklet for the 2013 Walk for Hunger)
Campian:
Byrd, O Lord my God
Purcell, Cakes and Ale

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

News of the week of January 17, 2023

Meeting Report

We played:

Busnois, Fortuna Desperata
Byrd, Attend mine humble prayer, Lord
Ravenscroft: (Note: all of these are in the booklet for the 2013 Walk for Hunger)
Henry VIII, Pasttime with good company

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

NEFFA

We are scheduled to lead a workshop at NEFFA at 11:30am on April 23. Please let me know if you want to be in the group – I can list you as a performer if I know soon. You should expect to come to some Tuesday rehearsals if we do that.

Otherwise, please come and participate that day. I expect the pent-up NEFFA energy after three years of online festivals to be impressive.